On Wed, 13 Apr 1994, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > As for NFS in general, its useless. As soon as you export an NFS > partition to the net (at least if you export it writable), you can > kiss your machine goodbye. Among other nasty tricks, even without the > mountd giving you any informaiton on the host you can just flood the > machine with unlink requests or guess inode generation numbers or > other such things. NFS is a hunk of junk. You can block NFS (2049) at the router. But that doesn't stop internal ways of getting root on machines running NFS / breaking into machines from the internal network. Mike